Don’t code your microservice like a monolith, keep it maintainable not over-engineered

Lego block can be analogous to microservices. Image from Pixabay.

Will you use a gun to kill a fly? The answer is NO. The same thing goes when you want to write a microservice application that is going to be maximum of 10K lines of code. Don’t over-engineer it. Ok, you have been writing and maintaining large code bases. Some might be 100K+ lines of code but you need to get over your habits and think…